The University of Texas Dallas

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Key Achievements

‍Partnered with cross-functional teams (Risk, Finance, Tech, QA) to gather business & data requirements, facilitated JAD sessions, and converted insights into user stories and technical specs used across multiple Agile sprints.
Created end-to-end SOPs, process maps, and data dictionaries, improving data governance and eliminating 20+ hours of redundant effort every month.
‍Collaborated with BI engineering team to integrate semantic models, enabling self-service analytics for business users.
‍Mentored junior analysts on SQL best practices, dashboard design, and documentation standards.

Implemented QA checkpoints & anomaly detection rules, reducing recurring data quality issues by 60%.

‍Conducted UAT, designed validation frameworks, and built automated scripts that detected 95% of defects before launch, ensuring flawless go-live for new data pipelines.

Developed dynamic Power BI dashboards and KPI reports for financial advisory client Deutsche Bank, boosting process transparency and stakeholder adoption by 30%.

Optimized ETL workflows (SQL + Power Query) that improved data refresh performance by 35% and increased pipeline reliability.

Prepared, validated, and analyzed large-scale regulatory datasets using SQL, Excel, and automation scripts — improving compliance report accuracy by 40% and reducing manual reconciliation significantly.